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Marc Andre Wyss
Advanced Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jun 4, 2009 Post Count: 57 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi all
----------------------------------------First of all, don't laugh.  As you may have noticed I'm working on a diskless linux client crunching cluster. I discovered the D510MO board from Intel with a D510 atom CPU. This CPU runs at 1.6Ghz, has 2 cores and is able to run 4 threads simultaneously. One idea was to use picoPSU's to power the boards with 12V. For this I can use a single 12V trafo for multiple boards. The highlight is most probably the passiv cooling of the boards. Therefore it is possible to run the whole cluster almost noisless. Good thing, especially if you are running it on your own home. Everything sounds good, but how good are atom CPU's with BOINC? I know they are much slower. All I'm afraid of are running times of weeks instead of hours. Does someone has any experience with atoms? Especially with D510? |
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Sekerob
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We're not laughing... we
---------------------------------------- ...... thank you for every cycle contributed.  Atoms have been discussed on the forums. Hit the search box for more sharings.
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Marc Andre Wyss
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Sekerob
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Yes, and with the search AND boolean added, find more, specifically one at the bottom of this result:
----------------------------------------http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/...8&submitbutton=Search Think to have read they can do 1-2 tasks a day, and if you aim them at the cpu time limited HCMD2 and RICE, you can get more done, albeit, not allot of structures and seeds per task.
WCG
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Marc I understand your approach, but if you look for crunching power you will need a lot lot of those atoms. To run them you will need to multiply the peripheral equipment. I am pretty convinced that you will end up with bad ratios as per results/watt or even maybe results/dollar against a smaller number of performant CPU's. It is difficult to say where is the sweet spot, or where curves will cross between scaling of say multiple i7920 (clocked at 3.5 Ghz with 1600 CL8 DDR3) and multiple atoms. It is worth to make the simulation.
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Marc Andre Wyss
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I'm really not sure, but I will have to wait anyway. I guess I must work 200% to get the money. :-)
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gibbcorp
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I have a dual core atom 330. It does around 2000 points per day on HCC using 4 threads. It uses about 50 - 55W. The motherboard is rubbish and that is where the power usage goes. I think the pinetrails will be a lot better with the integrated GPU. As a comparison I have an I7 920. This does 18000 points and uses 225W for the system. Obviously the cost is going to be the factor. I have a friend that uses CF cards for storage to keep power down. It just depends how much the hardware cost would be I think. I worked out I would be spending more if I used these boards. I would need 9 to match the I7 and it would use 495W.
There is a review here that is quite good. cheers http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/atom-d510-d510mo,2507.html |
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I have a dual core atom 330 on a zotax board, running @ 2100 with ION chipset. 4 threads for wcg and one for collatz (cuda on the ion gef 9300). It consumes 38 W at max. It does 13,5 WUs at rice/day and averages 2650 cred/day. Not much, but its ok for a little htpc.
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